New photos show the
abuse suffered by a
Mongolian rights
activist at the
hands of local
authorities in
China’s Inner
Mongolia Autonomous
Region.

The woman,
Huuchinchuu Govruud,
is a well-known
dissident writer.
The Chinese regime
banned her books for
what they called,
(quote) “posting
separatist content.”

Huuchinchuu
disappeared on
January 27th. Rights
organization the
Southern Mongolian
Human Rights
Information Center
recently released
the photos and
information about
her condition. The
organization says
she’s being held at
an undisclosed
location in Inner
Mongolia’s Tongliao
City, and is being
subjected to
frequent harassment
and beatings. This
is because of her
activism and
membership to an
organization the
Chinese regime has
banned—the Southern
Mongolian Democratic
Alliance.

A Mongolian rights
activist based in
Germany, Xi Haiming,
says Huuchinchuu has
endured years of
harassment.

[Xi Haiming,
Mongolian Rights
Activist]:
“These past few
years they haven’t
left her alone. They
put her under
surveillance, her
phone was tapped,
her Internet was cut
off, but she didn’t
surrender. She
loathed this
government control
and didn’t
cooperate.”

The leader of
Southern Mongolian
Democratic Alliance,
Hada has been
imprisoned for 15
years and is still
in jail although his
sentence ended last
year. Huuchinchuu
was briefly detained
and then put under
house arrest in late
2010 for rallying
for Hada’s release.

Rights activists say
the situation is
similar for anyone
who fights for human
rights in Inner
Mongolia.

[Mr. Li, Mongolian
Human Rights
Activist]:
“This is our human
rights situation,
the risks are
extremely great.
There are human
rights activists
here who have
vanished without a
trace. They are
nowhere to be found.
They were all legal
activists.”

Huuchinchuu is a
single mother who
was being treated
for breast cancer.
She had fought for
human rights in
Inner Mongolia for
the last two
decades.